PassionChristianity

• historical account of life of Jesus Jesus Christ

  After supper, Jesus took his disciples to the Mount of Olives to pray. While he was there, Judas led armed men sent by the chief priests to arrest him (Mark 14:43–52). They took Jesus to Caiaphas, who had gathered some of his councillors (called collectively the Sanhedrin). Jesus was first accused of threatening to destroy the Temple, but this charge was not substantiated. Caiaphas then...

• symbolized by passion-flower passion-flower

  The passion-flower blossom is often used to symbolize events in the last hours of the life of Christ, the Passion of Christ, which accounts for the name of the group. Thus, the corona represents the crown of thorns; the styles represent the nails used in the Crucifixion; the stamens represent the five wounds; and the five sepals and five petals represent 10 of the apostles, excluding Judas, who...

theme in

• Melito’s writings Melito Of Sardis

  ...religion of the Roman Empire. Eusebius gives the titles of 20 of Melito’s books, which were in Greek. Only fragments of these books survive, except for the almost complete text of his homily on the Passion of Christ. This work was first published in 1940 after a papyrus discovery and was fully published in 1960. In it, eternity and time, Christ’s divine and human nature, and the Jews and the...

• New Testament ( in biblical literature: The Gospel According to Mark: unique structure )

  ...10, there is great concentration on discussions with the disciples. The theme is suffering, and repeatedly they are reminded that there is no way of coming to glory except through suffering. Three Passion predictions meet either with rejection, fear, or confusion. In the Transfiguration (9:2–13; in which three disciples—Peter, James, and John—see Jesus become brighter and...

  in biblical literature: The... )

• discussed in biography Gréban, Arnoul

  French author of an important 15th-century religious drama known as Mystère de la Passion (1453/54), dramatizing the events of Jesus’ life. In 1507 a performance of his Passion play, revised by Jean Michel to 65,000 lines, occupied six days. Gréban also collaborated with his brother Simon on a long mystery play about the Acts of the Apostles. In 1455 he is known to have...

• description Passion music

  ...The Lutheran composer Johann Walther created a setting of the Passion according to St. Matthew (c. 1550) that was still popular in 1806. Other German Passions adopted a style called motet Passion because the entire text is set polyphonically, as in a motet. The 16th-century French composer Antoine de Longaval, who made extensive use of the plainsong formulas, was more concerned...

• type of oratorio oratorio

  ...of setting the words of each character for two or more voices. His oratorios achieve a balance between austerity and exuberance, but by the late 17th century this balance had been disturbed. Passion oratorio texts (dealing with the death of Jesus) of this period often abandon biblical words for a mixture of rhymed paraphrase and lyrical commentary of a more or less sentimental nature.

• discussed in biography Bergman, Ingmar

  ...series of films that included Persona (1966), Vargtimmen (1968; Hour of the Wolf), Skammen (1968; Shame), and En passion (1969; The Passion, or The Passion of Anna), all dramas of inner conflicts involving a small, closely knit group of characters. With Beröringen (1971; The Touch), his first English-language film,...